Brief Summary
Dr. Joe Dispenza discusses the neuroscience and biology of change, emphasizing the power of the mind to rewire itself and overcome emotional addictions. He highlights the importance of present moment awareness, heart-brain coherence, and creating from a state of wholeness rather than lack. The conversation explores practical tools and techniques for personal transformation, supported by scientific research and compelling case studies.
- The body doesn't know the difference between real experience and emotion fabricated by thought alone.
- Insight alone doesn't change behavior; conscious awareness and present moment practice are key.
- Forgiveness is a natural outcome of overcoming negative emotions and opening the heart.
- The autonomic nervous system can manufacture a pharmacy of chemicals that works better than any drug.
Intro
Dr. Joe Dispenza's groundbreaking research has unlocked a practical formula to empower millions of people to rewire their minds and create long-lasting change. He emphasizes that individuals can learn and change in states of joy and inspiration, not just pain and suffering. He aims to provide people with the information and tools to make new connections in their brains, enabling them to think, act, and feel differently within their current environments.
What Do You Do?
Dr. Joe Dispenza defines his work as teaching the neuroscience and biology of change, aiming to demystify the process so individuals can make measurable life improvements. He draws upon transcendental experiences, personal experiences with injury, and studies of spontaneous remissions. His approach involves translating scientific findings on neuroplasticity and epigenetics into practical methods for people to understand and reproduce transformative effects.
Why Do People Come to You?
People seek Dr. Dispenza's guidance for various reasons, primarily understanding that meditation can alter their body and life. Some aim for mystical experiences without substances, while others seek healing, career changes, abundance, or loving relationships. Ultimately, they are looking to change and become more whole, craving experiences beyond three-dimensional reality.
What Stops Us From Changing?
The stronger the emotion felt from a life event, the more the brain captures it as a long-term memory, causing the body to relive the event emotionally. This conditions the body to become the mind of that emotion, branding the person into the past. Identity becomes connected to this past, hindering change, as the body doesn't differentiate between real and fabricated emotions.
Don't Process the Past
Analyzing problems within past emotions worsens the brain's balance. Instead, Dr. Dispenza suggests trading negative emotions for elevated ones like gratitude, love, and kindness. Practicing these emotions, along with specific breathing and attention techniques, opens the heart and creates coherence. A coherent heart signals the brain that the trauma is over, resetting the brain's baseline and allowing a new perspective on the past.
What Are We Getting Wrong About Trauma in Modern Society?
Dr. Dispenza questions the effectiveness of trauma treatments that focus on recounting past events, as they may keep individuals in a cycle of reliving negative emotions. While insight can be valuable, it doesn't always lead to behavioral change. True change requires becoming conscious of unconscious beliefs, automatic habits, and emotional states.
Step 1: Insight, Awareness & Consciousness
Insight is an aspect of awareness, and consciousness is awareness, which involves paying attention and noticing. The first step to change is becoming conscious of one's current state. This awareness can arise from insights, downloads, or life experiences.
How to Increase Your Awareness
Increasing awareness involves practicing being present. Meditation helps to catch oneself going unconscious and to become conscious. The more one practices this, the more conscious they become in life, paying attention to previously unnoticed things. Being in the present moment means being comfortable in the unknown, which goes against biological programming that equates the unknown with survival threats.
The Meditation Process
Change requires being greater than the conditions in one's environment, thinking, acting, and feeling differently despite circumstances. It also means being greater than the body's emotional responses, memories, and habits. In meditation, this involves settling the body, not thinking about time or place, and moving from sometime to no time, and somewhere to nowhere.
How Meditation Takes You Out of Difficult Situations
Deep meditation makes one conscious of unconscious habits, reducing the desire to repeat them. People often wait for crises to change, but change is possible in states of joy and inspiration. Awareness of negative habits like blaming, complaining, and procrastinating leads to the realization that changing one's personality is necessary to create a new personal reality.
Why Can't Some People Change?
Some individuals struggle to change due to being programmed into a state of lack and waiting for external changes to fill an internal void. They are victimized by their circumstances, with their outer world controlling their inner thoughts and feelings. The old self asks "why haven't I healed?", while the new self is too busy overcoming and becoming. Witnessing others' transformations can inspire belief in one's own potential for healing.
Is the Identity We've Created Helping or Hurting Us?
While identity isn't inherently bad, it can be limiting if one becomes too attached to it. Aspects of one's personality or identity can undermine life progress. It's important to recognize limiting stories and beliefs and make a firm decision to change them. This decision must carry enough emotional energy to cause the body to respond to the mind.
You Need to Be Specific With Your Goals
To change, the reason why must be abundantly clear and incredibly strong. Assigning meaning to the task or act is crucial, and holding a vision of why you're doing it is essential. The only thing stopping you from achieving your goals is a part of your identity that needs to change.
Crazy Stories of War Veterans' Transformations
Many veterans cope with trauma but have an exit plan in the back of their minds. Dr. Dispenza reasons with them, explaining how opening their hearts can reset the baseline for trauma in the brain. They commit to this process, breaking through the emotion and recalibrating their brains and bodies.
The Importance of Forgiveness
Forgiveness involves overcoming negative emotions, which opens the heart and releases chemicals like oxytocin. Oxytocin dilates the arteries in the heart, filling it with energy. When one overcomes the emotion, attention is taken off the person or problem, calling energy back to oneself.
Should We Forgive Anyone No Matter What?
Forgiving frees oneself from the person or past experience by overcoming the emotion. Love heals, leading to wonderful effects in life, including healing.
The Link Between Negative Feelings and Sickness
Living in stress means living in survival mode, causing arousal and attention to the outer world, body, and time. This weakens the organism, leading to disease. People become addicted to stress hormones and need negative conditions to reaffirm their emotional state. Emotional responses to life conditions are crucial, and regulating emotions can shorten the response period.
Is Routine Necessary in Our Lives?
Setting aside time for oneself is important for getting the brain and body right. This time can be used to think about the day ahead, clear the mind, and meditate to overcome oneself and create.
The Brain and Heart Connection
Brain-heart coherence involves the heart informing the brain to get creative. Broadening awareness to sense space slows brain waves into Alpha, opening the door between the conscious and subconscious minds. Coherent Alpha synchronizes the brain, and in Theta, the heart tells the brain to imagine and fall in love with a future.
Psychedelics and Medication
Advanced meditators exhibit similar brain activity to those on psilocybin, with the default mode network shutting off. In Theta, one can program the subconscious mind and autonomic nervous system to change biology. Connecting to energy and frequency in Theta leads to high states of gamma brain wave patterns and feelings of ecstasy and bliss.
Advanced Meditators vs. Normal Meditators
Advanced meditators' blood contains information that stops the COVID virus from entering cells and shuts off mitochondrial function in cancer cells. They also experience neurogenesis and a completely changed microbiome. Novice meditators in week-long retreats can achieve similar brain states and biological changes as advanced meditators.
The People Who Attend Your Retreats Are Changed Forever
Dr. Dispenza's events are immersive experiences where people embody new practices. Attendees become equipped and walk back into life in a new body, no longer on the same line of time. The goal is for them to be examples, inspiring others to ask what's different about them.
What Is the Quantum?
The quantum field is an invisible field of energy and information beyond the material world, whose signature is Oneness and love. Connecting to it requires taking attention off the body, environment, and time, becoming nobody, no one, no thing, nowhere, and no time. In this state, thought is the electrical charge and feeling is the magnetic charge, creating a new Wi-Fi signal.
The Overcoming Process
The overcoming process involves sitting with oneself long enough to no longer want to feel a certain way. If one cannot stop feeling a negative emotion, they may be addicted to it. The long-term effects of stress hormones downregulate genes and create disease.
Joe's Religious Beliefs
Dr. Dispenza believes in one God with many expressions, with the Divine living in every human being. Connecting to this Divine involves removing blocks and becoming more conscious, mindful, willful, and loving. He believes we are dimensional beings living a dimensional life and that interacting with the Universal mind is a worthy journey.
